The US Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Science has announced the renewal of one the Energy Frontier Research Centers.

Dr. Djamel Kaoumi, associate professor of nuclear engineering at NC State, is part of the team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under Dr. Blas Uberuaga’s direction.

The center works on “Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes (FUTURE)” with the goal to understand the coupling between radiation damage and corrosion and predict irradiation-assisted corrosion in passivating and non-passivating environments for materials in nuclear energy systems.